Surprisingly, I don't see this topic discussed often. How do you balance the two, considering they are pulling in the opposite directions?

Granted, there are a lot of 9's and 10's (by conventional standards) but what if you're attracted to a very specific set of characteristics? And since attraction is not a choice, there's no way around it. It feels like improving one necessitates lowering the other. I guess, one could say that the kind of relationships you want determine where you wanna be on that spectrum, just not too far. But there doesn't seem to be the sweet spot between the two.